lobby的意思

lobby

英式音标['lɑbi]
美式英标['lɒbɪ]

基本解释

n. 大厅；休息室；会客室；游说议员的团体

vt. 对……进行游说

vi. 游说议员

lobby 大厅，前厅，游说

来自拉丁语lobia,修道院的前厅，门廊，词源同leaf,lodge.后词义通用化，用来指大厅，前厅，以及政治术语游说。

lobby: lobby: see lodge
lobby (n.): 1530s, "cloister, covered walk," from Medieval Latin laubia, lobia "covered walk in a monastery," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German louba "hall, roof;" see lodge (n.)). Meaning "large entrance hall in a public building" is from 1590s. Political sense of "those who seek to influence legislation" is attested by 1790s in American English, in reference to the custom of influence-seekers gathering in large entrance-halls outside legislative chambers.
lobby (v.): "seek to influence legislation," 1826, American English, from lobby (n.). Related: Lobbied; lobbying.

1. The union has attacked the plan and threatened to lobby against it.: 工会不但攻击该计划，而且还扬言要游说议员反对它。

2. Council tenants around the country are planning a mass lobby of Parliament.: 全国各地的市政住房租户正在计划组建一个大的议会游说团。

3. 3,000 city officials descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for more money.: 3,000名市政官员齐聚国会山，为筹集更多的款项进行游说。

4. The vote is seen as a defeat for the anti-abortion lobby.: 这一投票结果被看作是反堕胎游说团体的一次失败。

5. It must be terribly frustrating to lobby and get absolutely nowhere.: 游说未取得一点结果，一定让人非常沮丧。